Colloquium
Upcoming Colloquium
Student Presentations
Students, CSU Long Beach
May 2 and May 4, 2022
11:00am in HSCI-105
For individuals not able to come to campus, the Colloquium will also be simulcast live via Zoom. Please contact physics@csulb.edu.
CSU Long Beach physics students talk about their student research projects.
The Colloquium is a unique opportunity for students to learn about new developments in physics and what physicists do after they graduate. Hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at California State University Long Beach, the weekly meetings invite guests from universities, research laboratories, and industry to present and discuss current topics in physics. All students are encouraged to attend for a well-rounded experience and training in physics.
Colloquium Coordinator
For information and suggestions about the colloquium please contact the colloquium coordinator:
- Dr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal
- Email: Claudia.Ojeda-Aristizabal@csulb.edu
Schedule
The Spring 2022 colloquia starts on January 31.
Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
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May 2, 2022 | Student Research Presentations | Students, CSU Long Beach |
May 4, 2022 | Student Research Presentations | Students, CSU Long Beach |
Previous Colloquia
Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
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April 25, 2022 | Hunting long-lived particles at the CMS experiment | Dr. Daniel Diaz, UC San Diego |
April 18, 2022 | Looking Forward at CERN's Large Hadron Collider | Dr. Jonathan Lee Feng, UC Irvine |
April 11, 2022 | Walking The World Back From the Nuclear Brink: What can Scientists do? | Dr. Sebastien Philippe, Princeton University |
March 21, 2022 | Statistical Challenges in Big Data Astrophysics | Dr. Alexander Szalay, Johns Hopkins University |
March 14, 2022 | What does optimal human practice look like? | Dr. Joshua Samani, UCLA |
March 7, 2022 | Exploring the Milky Way's past and present using the atomic hydrogen emission | Dr. Juan Diego Soler, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy |
February 28, 2022 | Mapping Active Galactic Nuclei using Light Echoes | Dr. Triana Almeyda, South Carolina State University |
February 23, 2022 | A stellar census for the ages: Surveying Galactic & extragalactic history with asteroseismology | Dr. Joel Zinn, American Museum of Natural History |
February 21, 2022 | What's the (dark) matter with dwarf galaxies? | Dr. Ferah Munshi, University of Oklahoma |
February 16, 2022 | Star-Planet Interactions and Resolved Galaxy Evolution | Dr. Tara Fetherolf, UC Riverside |
February 14, 2022 | Einstein on the Computer: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Computational Astrophysics | Dr. Maria Okounkova, Flatiron Institute |
February 7, 2022 | Investigating the Origin of the Stars Closest to the Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole | Dr. Devin Chu, UCLA |
January 31, 2022 | What are Majorana zero modes and why should you care? | Dr. Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland College Park |
The Colloquium Archive has the Colloquia from previous semesters.
Sponsors
We acknowledge with gratitude donations and support from the following present sponsors:
- H.E. and H.B. Miller and Family Endowment
- Benjamin Carter
- American Physical Society
- Anonymous
We also acknowledge with gratitude our past donors: The Forty-Niner Shops, Inc., The Northrop Grumman Foundation, Sandra Dana, Anonymous.
If you wish to support the Colloquium, please contact the colloquium coordinator or the department chair. Thank you!